Plus: In news elsewhere, a luxury women’s health spa in Belgravia – with annual membership fees of £5,500 – this week blamed Brexit for its closure.
The answer seems likely to be yes. But there are still implications for the politics and economics of Brexit.
It is rarely Brexit that people raise on the doorstep. It is concerns about the NHS; their local school; the difficulties faced by social care, or the rise in violent crime.
Is it reasonable to expect more political benefit from record numbers in employment, record numbers of vacancies, and wages rising faster than inflation?
Former service personnel of working age are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed as those in the UK general population.
In the face of our challenges, we often forget about our many opportunities, our potential and what we already have to celebrate.
But although the era of austerity is coming to a close, we are emphatically not rejecting the need for ongoing discipline with the public finances.
Wages are growing at their fastest rate for ten years, and employment is at a near-record high. But qualifications are necessary…
A commitment to social justice has always been at the heart of conservatism. Now we need to do more to support families, health and relationships.
What’s more, it might be starting to help lift wages, too.
The old, with their savings, could help the young. The economically active young could help the old, by giving them an income.
Each Secretary of State in every department should examine the impact of their department’s policies on families’ lives.
As he battled the agri-barons, and Thatcher battled the union barons, so we must champion the underdog against the corporatist barons of today.
The passengers on board this ship came with ambition, skills, and a desire to play a part in the UK’s reconstruction after World War Two.
There are benefits all round when employers adopt the higher, voluntary rate, and the public sector ought to be setting an example.